Manuscripts

Max Farrand letter to Hill Hastings

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Description: In this letter, Max Farrand asks Hill Hastings if he is planning on going to the June outing of the Sunset Club. He writes that since he believes that Hastings' son is to graduate from the Thacher School in Ojai, that they are both scheduled to be there on Friday afternoon, June 14. Farrand had promised Sherman Thacher that he would stay over that Friday evening, but he thinks he can get out of it. If Hastings was planning to go to the Sunset Club outing that weekend, he wondered if they could work out a combination so Farrand would not have to deal with the unfamiliar California traffic.
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Production date: 1929, April 29.
Call number: mssHM 52270
Creator: Farrand, Max (1869-1945)(Opens in new tab)
Provenance: Gift of Robert Hastings, April 8, 1986.

Max Farrand

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The Max Farrand papers consist of letters, manuscripts, documents, and one scrapbook from 1816 to 1947. Many of the pieces are typewritten and photostatic copies of academic correspondence from and to historians and other scholars, Wesleyan; Stanford; Cornell; and Yale Universities; Commonwealth Fund, 1918 to 1927; Huntington Library, 1927 to 1941; American Historical Society; American Philosophical Society, etc. Included is primary source material for research in American history, particularly in politics of the revolutionary and early federal periods. Also included are materials relating to the drafting of United States Constitution and Benjamin Franklin and journals of travels in Pennsylvania, Massachusetts, Connecticut, New York, and Maryland at the beginning of the nineteenth century. There is also material relating to Mary Cadwalader Jones, Farrand's mother-in-law and the author of Lantern slides (Boston, 1937). Also present are 16 Theodore Roosevelt letters to Max Farrand.

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Hamlin Garland letters to Max Farrand

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In these two letters written by Garland, from his home in Hollywood, to Max Farrand, Garland is offering to give the Huntington Library his "records and manuscripts which form the basis of [his] latest book, 'The Mystery of the Buried Crosses.'" He states that other archives in California have offered to take the material and perhaps plan an exhibit of his material. Garland also plans on bringing guests to the Huntington. These letters were written just a few days before Hamlin's death.

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Max Farrand portrait

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Half-length portrait of Farrand seated behind his desk with an open book in front of him as he looks away to his left. Farrand is wearing a dark three-piece suit and stripped tie. Max Farrand was the Director of Research between 1927 and 1941.

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Max Farrand letter to Hill Hastings

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